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The Good Samaritan

c. 1842

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

(French, 1803–1860)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
oil on fabric
Measurements
Framed: 54 x 71 x 10 cm (21 1/4 x 27 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 28.8 x 46 cm (11 5/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Noah L. Butkin 1980.253
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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A horizontally oriented oil painting depicts a landscape with weathered stone walls and slender pine trees rising from rocky hills across the middle ground. Above, orange clouds stretch across a blue sky, framing shadowed hills at our left. In the foreground, the Good Samaritan, a man with a medium-light skin tone, kneels to assist a light-skinned person. To our right, a brown horse and a white horse draped in red stand near them.

The Good Samaritan

c. 1842

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

(French, 1803–1860)
France, 19th century

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